Her reputation was noted throughout the area for her contemplation and penitential practices as well as for her desire to live a cloistered life meditating on God.

[1][2] The devotion to Puricelli led to her beatification on 16 September 1769 after Pope Clement XIV confirmed her local cultus (or longstanding veneration).

Her father was a crude and violent man who detested the fact that his daughter was attracted to the spiritual life and so made plans to have her married.

Pope Sixtus IV granted her permission on 10 August 1476 to live the monastic life and she assumed the religious habit following this.

Both Puricelli and Moriggi were beatified on 16 September 1769 after Pope Clement XIV confirmed their local cultus (or longstanding veneration).